The military record of Stockport is, owing to its
recent formation as a town, limited. In the war for the Union,
1861-65, aid was early extended the government by filling the quota,
bounties to volunteers being offered to this end. At a special
meeting, held Sept. 3, 1862, $150 per man was voted, to be secured by a loan
on the credit of the town by Charles H. Stott, G. Lathrop, Rensselaer
Reynolds, Andrew Moore, and Alfred Ostrom. The first-named gentleman
disbursed $4150 under this provision. On the 24th day of August, 1864,
a $200 bounty was voted at a special meeting, and Vroman Van Rensselaer,
Andrew Moore, Charles H. Stott, and Henry S. Van De Carr were authorized to
issue the scrip of the town to secure the necessary men; and again, Jan. 20,
1865, a special meeting authorized V. Van Rensselaer, H. S. Van De Carr, B.
Van Buren, A. Ostrom, and C. H. Stott as a war committee to use their own
judgment in the choice of means to promptly fill the quota by procuring
substitutes or volunteers.